[ Oh, this sucks for Xenk, actually. He didn't expect the change of scenery to find a way to call back to him -- the last thing he expected was a reminder of the horrible dream he'd had of a childhood that was somehow not his, but also his with certainty.
Xenk freezes at the sight of the Red Wizard, his feet suddenly weighed down to the dirt beneath him, limbs frozen in ice as his unbeating heart stills. He isn't a child, this isn't the same, but the memory of that terrible day is so fresh. He watches Edgin's tragedy unfold before him, and all he can think of is his own suffering. Xenk had been working so hard to ignore it, to simply try and forget and not deal with the immeasurable hurt he'd been suddenly saddled with, that seeing the man wearing Szass Tam's markings, his very colors...
None of it makes sense, but that changes nothing. Xenk is afraid, his voice small when he speaks. ]
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Xenk freezes at the sight of the Red Wizard, his feet suddenly weighed down to the dirt beneath him, limbs frozen in ice as his unbeating heart stills. He isn't a child, this isn't the same, but the memory of that terrible day is so fresh. He watches Edgin's tragedy unfold before him, and all he can think of is his own suffering. Xenk had been working so hard to ignore it, to simply try and forget and not deal with the immeasurable hurt he'd been suddenly saddled with, that seeing the man wearing Szass Tam's markings, his very colors...
None of it makes sense, but that changes nothing. Xenk is afraid, his voice small when he speaks. ]
This... this cannot be.